I am (since 2015) the Project Scientist in the Office of Public Outreach, Space Telescope Science Institute, which is the science and operations home for NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. I work to bring the latest astrophysics discoveries to the world.

I'm also Research Affiliate at the University of Texas at Austin, where I have worked since 2008. I co-supervise Ph.D. students in astrophysics, and work an observational astrophysicist studying the processes by which star and planetary systems are born, evolve, and change over time. How did our Solar System get the way it is today, and are there key points where things could have been very different? What are the demographics of our Milky Way Galaxy's exoplanetary systems?